CHENNAI: Samyuktha Vinodkumar defeated Joell Nichole 6-5 (7/4) in a girls U-15 pre-quarterfinal match of the SSN Open 2017 tennis tournament, played at the SSN college courts.
Results: Boys: M Krthan bt JP Nishant 6-1; Atish bt Kalyan Sagar 2-2 ret; Adhirit Awal bt Velan Vanaraja 6-2; Mohamed Musharaf bt Vigneshwaran 6-3; Kaushik Sundaresan bt S Vishaal 6-1; Sachin Vanaraja bt Jothinivas 6-2; Akshay Vijay bt Keerthivasan 6-0. Girls: Samyuktha Vinodkumar bt Joell Nichole 6-5 (7/4); Sagaya Angelin Shalini bt Mrithyunka Babu 6-1; Mridhula Palanivel bt G Shreyaa 6-0; Smita w/o Kaavya Palani; Viveha Sivaraman w/o M Varshini; Aditi Venkatakrishnan bt V Vaishnavi 6-0; Harini Parthiban bt A Nityashree 6-0; Deepalakshmi Vanaraja bt Anurakini 6-0.
Cricket tourney
The Little Masters Cricket Academy will be conducting a T20 tournament for U-13 and U-15 boys from April 14 to May 31. The tournament will be played in league format. Each team will play nine matches and the top four teams will qualify for the knock-out stage. First 10 entries will be entertained and the same closes on March 31. For details, contact: 9444413006.
CSSF summer camp
Chennai St Bede’s Sports Foundation will be conducting a cricket coaching camp at the St Bede’s grounds from April 1 to May 31 for boys in the age group of 6 to 19 years. Registration forms are available at the St Bede’s grounds. For details, contact: 98400 70486 / 98412 27966.
Football tournament
SSN college will be organising the first edition of SSN championship, a state-level inter-engineering college football tournament, for men from March 23 to 25 at its newly-laid football ground. The winners will take home `50000.
Viva have it easy
Basant Rai helped Viva Chennai register a comfortable 2-0 victory over Indian Bank during a St Joseph’s CFA Senior Division league match here at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.
Results: Senior Division: Viva Chennai 2-0 Indian Bank. First Division: Eleven Warriors 0-0 Rangoon FC. Arrows 2-0 SDS.
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